Hair net



Jun@ 2, 1936. J F, Moms 2,042,908

HAIR NET Filed March 4, 1935 NON Patented June 2, 1936 UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE 6 Claims.

This invention relates to hair nets and is in the nature of an improvement on the hair net shown and described in my pending application led December 19, 1934, under Serial No. 758,220.

(despite its elasticity, produces considerable pres- -sureon the forehead of the wearer and leaves a line thereon which persists for some time after the hair net is removed.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a hair net having a border el-astic extending only part way along the edge of the net, whereby the net may be worn with comfort with the mesh in perfectly smooth contact with the forehead without producing any noticeable pressure and without leaving any mark or streak -along the forehead when removed.

This result I have accomplished by omitting the border elastic from those border meshes that comprise the front of the hair net, namely the part that covers the forehead. The ends of the border elastic are fastened to the netting and threaded through the border meshes that comprise the sides andback portions of the border, thereby allowing the net to shape itself to the head. When 'a chin elastic is used, its ends are fastened (together with the border elastics) to the netting at places loc-ated at the edges of the net that are disposed at the sides of the head of the wearer when in use.

The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the drawing accompanying this specific-ation in which:

Fig. l is a plan of a hair net stretched out and partly broken away, illustrating diagrammatically a simple embodiment of the present invention, and

Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic perspective view of the hair net.

Referring to said drawing, the reference character 6 designates the netting of which 'I is the ground mesh, 8, 9, the border meshes, and III the ne meshes at the ends of the netting with which the ends of the border elastics II, I 2 and chin elastic I3 are interwoven as fully described in my prior application above referred to. The bor-der elastics II, I2, at their end portions', eX- tend crosswise through the iine meshes I6, and intersect each other and the chin elastic as shown and are tightly interwoven with the fine meshes and thereby securely attached thereto.

The elastics may, however, be fastened to the netting in any approved manner, but I prefer the one shown and described in my said prior application because it leaves the hair net free from knots.

The border elastic I2 is, as a preference, loosely threaded through the border meshes 9 although the border meshes may be interwoven on the border elastic I2 if so desired. The border elastic I I, however, is closely interwoven with the border meshes 8 and thereby attached thereto, for short distances only from the ne meshes IIJ, whereby the border meshes I4 that are located between those which are woven upon the border elastic II, are left free of any elastic. The part of the border mesh I4 which is unprovided with a border elastic becomes the front of the hair net, when worn, and that part of the net covers the forehead o-f the -wearer and fits perfectly smooth across the forehead without any noticeable pressure and without any possible danger of leaving a mark or line on the forehead. Figure 2 clearly illustrated this feature, where it will be seen that the border elastic is omitted from the section of the hair net that is disposed at the front.

The hair net is woven upon a lace machine substantially in the same manner as that disclosed in my said prior application, except that the border elastic II along one side is woven with' the border meshes 8 part way only from the fine meshes at each end of the net. Both border elastics and the chin elastic are interwoven with the fine meshes as in my said prior application to permanently secure the end thereof to the ends of the netting of each hair net. Hair net material of indefinite length is woven as before,

and is severed between the fine meshes to form the individual hair nets. During the weaving process, the border elastic at one side is threaded through the border meshes as before, but the border elastic at the other side, for instance the one designated by II, is closely interwoven with the border meshes 8 for a short distance, say onefourth of the length of the net, then border meshes I4 are formed along a portion of the length of the net that are unconnected with the border elastic, and then .during the remainder of the operation, border meshes 8 are again interwoven with the border elastic II and the end of the net completed as in my prior application. This leaves a part I5 of the border elastic I I unconnected with the border meshes I4 from the points Iii to I I, which part of the elastic is cut -away from the net at places close to the points I6, I I, leaving that part I4 of the border mesh free of any border elastic. The free border meshes I4 are symmetrically disposed with respect to the attached ends of the elastic Il and therefore forms the front of the net.

From the above it is apparent that the border elastics extend from points adjacent the temples of the wearer and around the back of the head, serving to hold the net snugly on the head without any undue pressure at the front, but with the front lpart of the net held smoothly across the forehead.

With the construction -as above described, it is possible to weave the hair net on standard lace looms with the border elastics and chin elastic attached to the netting as above described. It is possible, however, to attach the ends of the border elastics to the border meshes in other approved ways than by weaving the border meshes upon them.

It is to be understood that in Fig. 1 the hair net is shown stretched out ilat and that when released, the elastics contract the ends of the net. The ends are thereby gathered together, reducing the width at the ends to one half or less than the width shown.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A hair net comprising a. length of netting having border meshes at the sides, and border elastics, one threaded through the border meshes on one side of the net, from end .to end, and the border elastic on the other side being attached to the border meshes adjacent the ends ofthe net only, and unconnected with the border meshes therebetween, the ends of the border elastics being secured to the ends of the netting.

2. A hair net comprising a length of netting having border meshes at the sides, and ne end meshes at the ends, and two border elastics ex- .tending around the edge of the netting and threaded through border meshes thereof, the end portions of the border elastics being closely interwoven with the fine end meshes, one of the border elastics being closely interwoven with the border vmeshes part way only from the end meshes, leaving free border meshes between said closely interwoven portions of the border elastic.

3. A hair net comprising a length of netting having border meshes at the sides and ne end meshes at the ends, border elastics, one extending through the border meshes at one side of the net, and the other elasticextending through border meshes at the other side part-way only from the ne end meshes, and a chin elastic extending from end to end of the netting, the ends of said border elastics and chin elastic being closely interwoven with the fine meshes at the ends of the netting and one of the border elastics being closely interwoven with the border meshes part way only from the fine meshes, leaving free border meshes between the attached parts of the elastics.

4. A hair net comprising a length of netting having side border meshes and fine end border meshes, aborder elastic threaded through border meshes at one side and interwoven at its ends with the ne meshes at both ends of the netting, border elastic sections interwoven with the border meshes at the other side adjacent the ends of the netting and interwoven with the fine meshes, and a chin elastic interwoven at its ends with the fine border meshes at the ends of the netting.

5. A hair net, comprising a length of netting having border meshes at its sides and fine meshes at its ends, and border elastics extending along the side edges ofthe netting and along the end edges to the middle thereof, one of the elastics being threaded through the border meshes at one side of the netting and the other elasticV being tightly interwoven with border meshes part-way along the other side from both 'end edges thereof, thereby leaving a portion of the latter border elastic unconnected with border meshes on that side of the netting, the portions of the elastics at the end edges being tightly interwoven with the fine end meshes.

6. A hair net, comprising a length of netting having border meshes at its sides and i'lne meshes at its ends, and border elastics, one tightly interwoven with ne meshes at both ends of the netting and threaded through the border elastics at one side of the netting, and the other elastic being in two sections, each section tightly interwoven with fine meshes at an end of the netting, and with border meshes part-way along the other side of the netting from the ends thereof.

LEON J. FRANGOIS MORINS. 

